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Le Samouraï

France

1967

105 Min

Color

French

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Raymond Borderie, Eugène Lépicier

SCR Jean-Pierre Melville, Joan McLeod

CAST Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Michel Boisrond

ED Monique Bonnot, Yo Maurette

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology—maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samouraï defines cool. —The Criterion Collection

Director

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) was an amateur filmmaker as a teenager who, after the start of World War II, began making his own independent short and feature films. He hit his stride in the ‘50s with his memorable adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s novel, Les Enfants Terribles, and, over the next 20 years, specialized in intelligent and exciting crime films, most notably Bob le Flambeur, Le Doulos (aka The Finger Man), Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge, and Un Flic. Melville also acted in his own Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan, as well as Cocteau’s Orphee, Jean-Luc Godard’s À Bout de Souffle (aka Breathless), and Claude Chabrol’s Landru (aka Bluebeard). He died in 1973.

(From http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:102465 )

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Andy Oettl

2Jan10

Forget Tarantino, Scorsese, Mann and (his biggest fan) John Woo: it doesn't get any cooler than this. A moody triumph of style with Alain Delon in the role that defined his career.

Daniel Seth Levine

14Dec09

what a brilliant film...I just got it the other day and I was totally amazed. The whole film is minimalist to the extreme...I don't think Jef says more than 100 words the entire film. He's easily the coolest assassin ever. Plus, without spoiling it, that was one hell of an ending.